- For over 75 years, Ukrainian scholars of the Holodomor of 1932-1933
fixed the death toll in the range of 7 to 10 million until about 2008,
when "modern" Ukrainian scholars asked that the Ukrainian Diaspora lower this
figure to the 3.5 to 5.0 million range based on new "demographic"
studies. Volodymyr Serhiychuk questions the validity of these new
studies.

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President Petro Poroshenko makes an impassioned address to the UN
General Assembly concerning Rusasian aggression against Ukraine and
asks that a UN-sponsored peacekeeping mission be sent into the
Russian-occupied area of the Donbas so as to re-establish Ukrainian
sovereignty over the area. Video links and the text of both speeches are
available in English, as well as in Ukrainian.

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An English-language text of Hitler's address to the German Reichstag
declaring war on the United States on 11Dec1941 is given -- together
with my summary and comments.- Hitler specifically refers to Roosevelt's plan (code named RAINBOW-5) to attack Germany.

-In
response to the Bloomberg View article, I propose that "Peacemakers not
Peacekeepers are required in Ukraine's Donbas", such that fully armed
military units from Germany, France and other European countries would
monitor the Ukraine-Russia border, the contact line between Ukrainian
and Russian-backed forces and the territory in between.

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Mark Galeotti introduces the acronym RBOC (Russian-based organised
crime) to describe how the Kremlin uses these world-wide criminal
networks on behalf of the Putin regime against democratic and
democracy-aspiring countries in Europe and around the world.

OCCRP
(Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) reporters have
investigated many corruption schemes around the world. In this article,
they appear to have uncovered an extensive weapons laundering scheme in
Ukraine's military export institution, Ukrinmash.